Use of road and airdrome construction equipment
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1945.
Published: 1945-01-15
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Description: TM 5-252
Table of contents: title: TM 5-252 Use Of Road And Airdrome Construction Equipment, 1945-01-15; title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER 1. GENERAL 1; title: Section 2. Introduction 1-5 1; title: II. Basic considerations 4-12 1; title: CHAPTER 2. CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS AND ASSIGNMENT OF EQUIPMENT 13 6; title: CHAPTER 3. CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES OF EQUIPMENT; title: Section I. General 14-18 44; title: II. Tractors 19-21 46; title: III. Dozers 22-25 49; title: IV. Scrapers, road, motorized, and towed 26-29 69; title: V. Power shovels, draglines, clamshells and cranes 30-33 88; title: VI. Hauling equipment 34-41 101; title: VII. Graders 42-47 111; title: VIII. Rooters, plows, cultivators, harrows, and rotary tillers 48-49 135; title: IX. Air compressors and pneumatic tools 50-55 143; title: X. Crushing, washing, screening, and auxiliary quarry and gravel-pit equipment 54-56 146; title: XI. Rollers 57-60 169; title: XII. Bituminous construction equipment 173; title: XIII. Concrete equipment 64-67 183; title: XIV. Ditching machine, mowers, sweepers, loader buckets, clearing units, earth augers, tractor-mounted winches, and chain saws 68-69 191; title: CHAPTER 4. CONSTRUCTION AIDS; title: Section I. General 70-71 200; title: II. Improvised equipment 72-74 201; title: III. Use of explosives 75-80 213; title: IV. Construction drainage and hydraulic aids 81-84 230; title: CHAPTER 5. CAPABILITIES AND USE OF LABOR 85-91 232; title: CHAPTER 6. PLANNING CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVED ROADS AND AIRDROMES; title: Section I. Basic considerations 92-94 240; title: II. Scheduling 95-101 241; title: III. Supervision 102-107 258; title: CHAPTER? 7. PIONEER ROADS AND ADVANCED LANDING FIELDS; title: Section I. General considerations 108-112 266; title: II. Pioneer roads 113-116 266; title: III. Advanced landing fields 117-119 272; title: INDEX 274